This is the first scale model
we produced of the Panda. It showed up some design problems and was worth
the couple of hours spent on it.

Chairs very much, Mr Panda

The chassis is the first main
development we are working on. It may not look much here, but you didn't
see it when we started!! By the time it is finished it should give us all
the strength we need, so that we can concentrate on offensive weapons rather
than watching our backs...

Make it So-ho..

I don't know about you, but
I do like to see a man working...No, really, Chris isn't crying here!!
This is the long process of heating and bending of much of the frame. We
found the heating was much more effective if you removed the surrounding
paint first, so here we see the use of a file being demonstrated by my
lovely assistant :-)

Hippo-potto-panda!

My first photographic appearence
on this website!!

What we have here is a partially complete
chassis. I was trying to check that the dimensions were within those that
we set for the Panda on the plans above. In practise, it's not really very
convenient to stick ridgedly to that plan, but it is good to have a plan
to work from. At this point it still doesn't look too much like the shape
in the plans but....

Mona-Panda

Finally, the shape starts to
appear. This is Panda chassis with two wheels in place (but not fixed).
The base is not shown here and the middle uprights have yet to be welded
into position. There should be no problems with weight or size, based on
this little beast!!